But what if the Democrat candidate has a weird laugh?
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Commented on Thu Aug 28 22:00:23 2025 UTC
I like how so many people picked now to make the worst choice of their lives.
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│ The Hispanic news channels popular in the US (Telemundo, Univision) heavily lean conservative, and they framed anything anti-Trump as fear mongering.
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That’s why Jorge Ramos left Univisión and why Raul de Molina said that it’s hard for him to go to work sometimes because of the Cuban Trumpistas. They don’t like it when he speaks out against Trump. You can tell because Lili Estefan always tries to change the subject.
Many Latinos who backed Trump say they won't support Republicans next time
Many Latinos who voted for President Trump in the last election say they are disappointed or even regret voting for him, according to recent polling. We discuss what’s behind the dissatisfaction and what it could mean for next year’s midterm elections.
This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, politics correspondent Ashley Lopez and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
This podcast was produced by Casey Morell & Bria Suggs, and edited by Rachel Baye.
Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.
Listen to every episode of the NPR Politics Podcast sponsor-free, unlock access to bonus episodes with more from the NPR Politics team, and support public media when you sign up for The NPR Politics Podcast+ atplus.npr.org/politics.
Black conservative went to Jubilee, insisted that Black people should stop playing victim and don’t deserve reparations because they’re too lazy playing video games.Now he’s playing victim for being ‘forced to resign’ over his politics and is begging for donations (few donated since he is not white)
for anyone completely oblivious to this jabroni, all you probably need to know is that he 'found' jesus while overdosing on gas station synth-weed.
lol
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│ The only time people decide to "turn their life over to Christ" is when it's become so horrible that no one else wants anything to do with it. Jesus also makes a good scapegoat for not taking responsibility for all the shytty things they've done.
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This phenomenon (manamanah) of people supporting their oppressors is absolutely fascinating.
"Would you like to support the people that will gladly put you to death?" - "Of course I do! Why wouldn't I?!"
WTAF.
Edit: thank you for the award!
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│ │ │ │ I'd argue it's more for the attention, I'm sure she makes decent money but she married a rando british guy like 2 seconds after meeting him, who's the son of a Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer - Wikipedia and Conservative Political Operator. They're not hard up for money
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There's an episode of Dear White People that showcases this
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Tiktok link of Wells debating Amanda Seales:
Tiktok about him starting a givesendgo:
How post about the firing from a Christian school:
Hard to find info about this because a different Jubilee participant got fired from a private employer after he declared himself a fascist in a debate video. This pastor has his own website though.
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│ No. Apparently they say 77 million and decided to make that 77%,
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│ Trump got 77,302,580 votes.
│ Harris got 75,017,613 votes.
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2/37
@AgorasMedia
All their relatives voted for him, or most.
Mario's granddad came here illegally.
3/37
@PawlowskiMario
“Latinos for Trump are like roaches for a Raid.”
4/37
@_CrownMeRoyal
70% of Cubans in Florida voted for Trump in 2024.
58% of Hispanics voted for Trump in Florida in 2024
5/37
@leftcoastbabe
So in Little Havana restaurants in Miami, looks like face is on the menu.
6/37
@peopleschampdon
7/37
@kosiceThomas
What does the US Secretary of State say about this?
8/37
@ShantellShaw16
Wow!
9/37
@mane9999
They finally realized that if they gave them gold card in migration they wouldn't do anything themselves to save their country?
What took them so long
10/37
@xray_media
The cruelty isn't a bug—it's the blueprint. Trump's admin weaponizes immigration policy as performance art, where Cubans fleeing oppression become props in a deportation spectacle staged for MAGA applause.
March 2025: 300k Cubans stripped of humanitarian parole. July 2025: ICE triples arrest quotas to 3k/day while deporting detainees to Eswatini prisons. 14 deaths in custody since November 2024—including 75-year-old Isidro Pérez. The admin's "pedagogy of cruelty" treats human lives as spreadsheet cells.
America's soul dies by spreadsheet.
11/37
@Alejandra_Tica
but Cubans for Trump, right?
12/37
@MeiYonememe
13/37
@OxfordFarr66929
And Marco Rubio so happy to pull up the ladder and slam the hatch.
14/37
@OakSyder
Anyhew. Anyone else still hung up on this whole "Hawaiian pizza" thing? Pineapples? Really?
15/37
@nee_haynes
I’m happy for them. They got exactly what they voted for!
16/37
@TeahCartel
Along with every other country.
17/37
@WinEraPolitics
I bet Little Marco’s parents are so proud of him, being Cuban immigrants and all.
18/37
@OGreporter
They sold out the rest of us Latinos.
19/37
@Wbtesq
Voting Republican isn't working out the way it used to.
20/37
@TrumptheFelon77
There are lots of Cubans in Miami who voted for Trump! Now they are targets!
21/37
@KBinSC
So, illegals...
22/37
@sgv0601
Good. Cubans are probably the most privileged, arrogant, elitist, entitled minority. It’s about time they get knocked a pegged or two.
23/37
@hostofthings
So they voted for trump.
24/37
@subtard
"cUbAnS fOr tRuMp"
25/37
@teammagakim
Bravo
26/37
@MattMMPLS
Cubans in Miami must love their vote right now.
Leopards, faces.
27/37
@wenbread
What about the Cuban in the White House you forgot one
28/37
@AngelinoDem
I guess Venezuelans and Cubans should have voted differently
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@may21201960470
for those of us in south florida I welcome it. cubans have assimilated the least. Do you hear italian everywhere in NYC? or any other language other than English? Miami does not speak english. none of it. kick them out. they are batista fascists anyway. I welcome them booted.
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@cv_investments
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@raysofl1
I approve.
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@dccampfin
Tell all the Floridians of Cuban origin about this!
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@RivkaPNW
The majority of Cubans in Florida voted for this!
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@Raul42944225
Isn't Little Marco's family from Cuba. Is this why he agree to bend the knee to save them from being deported.
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
bsky.app
1/50 cwebbonline.com
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.”
Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
2/50 oeishik.bsky.social
We're literally watching our prosperity rotting in the fields. Thanks to Donald's bigotry & disruption. youtu.be/XT0wpT_62OM
3/50 cwebbonline.com
You nailed it.
4/50 ernest33141.bsky.social
Totally TOP
5/50 otrodia.bsky.social
6/50 wombatbitme.bsky.social
I think I’ve run out of words for maga idiocy
7/50 blabalino.com
Put the Florida National Guard to work rounding up MAGA unemployed to work the fields. Must be more interesting then cleaning up and laying mulch.
8/50 skowalchuk.bsky.social
Great idea!
9/50 hooroousa.bsky.social
You can't believe that the maggots would WORK.
10/50 stevegangi.bsky.social
Bad accent from old war movie... "Ve haff vays to make you verk"
11/50 robertcpadilla.bsky.social
This economy is fundamentally reliant on immigrant workers.
That is why it's important not to deport them but to help them get documented.
It actually makes economic sense.
12/50 tedium24x7.bsky.social
Unfortunately, bigots who don't know how anything works have been put in charge of the country.
13/50 freetahfox.bsky.social
This was all planned. Those bigots were very carefully cultivated by soulless men with very deep pockets and in the overall picture they had no more choice than a cog in a huge machine over which way it turns.
14/50 pasandy.bsky.social
These farmers now want the government (us) to pay the losses these policies cost them.
15/50 cwebbonline.com
Trump doesn’t care about those farmers. Even though most of them voted for him.
16/50 ra59050.bsky.social
He will reimburse them & they keep voting for him.
17/50 eheart.bsky.social
They know that. That’s one reason they keeping voting for Republicans. It’s shameful, but they have no shame or morals.
18/50 bluedoggy.bsky.social
It is about the racism, the cruelty. None of this makes farm sense, or any type of business sense.
19/50 sandyinthepacnw.bsky.social
None of it makes sense because it’s not supposed to. Cruelty is the design. The Mad King hoards wealth and power while everyone else is left to rot. That’s the point.
20/50 waffa.bsky.social
Meanwhile, many are starving in Gaza as our food rots in the fields...
21/50 sommaf.bsky.social
It's so awful.
22/50 call634-5789.bsky.social
23/50 scooter1981.bsky.social
But I do own 47 guns…
24/50 angrylibra.bsky.social
Where are all the racist whites that wanted to get rid of all the brown people because they were scared of them stealing their jobs????
25/50 natureskid.bsky.social
As a Libra myself, I agree…!
26/50 jaimec66.bsky.social
27/50 greglwhite.bsky.social
President George Bush Jr. could join Mensa compared to this guy. I don't want a President "like me", I want one a whole lot smarter than most people, and hires smart.people to help with the stuff they don't know.
28/50 battleax-70.bsky.social
Christopher, I was born & raised in CA & know who walks the rows.
I supported the Grape Boycott & fight for the UFW.
I know who works the feedlots, harvests the apples, works the rich Earth. Who breaks their backs under that blazing Sun.
Not Anglos for sure, get food from field to plate.
29/50 upine.bsky.social
They DK this is happening bc most media are Right Wing & don't cover such things. They only cover pretty lies about T/GOP & ugly lies about Dems.
31/50 himself132.bsky.social
There was a similar problem after Brexit.
32/50 noelkeith.bsky.social
This is part of why I say that Trump slumps a drools a bit as he rides Famine;
Hegseth looks queasy as he pulls up on War;
RFK, jr sits astride Pestilence with what’s destined to be the biggest body count by far;
Of course Putin is shirtless as he gallops around on Death.
33/50 imzadi4410.bsky.social
The Four Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse. #StopICE Bluesky
34/50 natureskid.bsky.social
OH MY HOLINESS, BIBLICAL AWAKENING TO END OF DAYS……!
35/50 mrayburn8743.bsky.social
I bet the owner of this patch voted for Trump.
36/50 mickey23.bsky.social
Also farmer in Fl lost his whole tomatoes crop, this is happening folks, the price of fresh fruits, vegetables skyrocketing, expect shortages, this is what U voted for Maga, and it's gonna get worse. Voting has consequences.
37/50 flathdlake.bsky.social
As does not bothering to vote.
38/50 americaisdoomed.bsky.social
all the tough jobs are done by immigrants because “real americans” are too weak and lazy to do these jobs. america is weak. Not even a first world country anymore. A failed nation.
39/50 pastajoe.bsky.social
40/50 robertschlesinger.bsky.social
Econometric models forecast that Trump & Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have so damaged the U.S. economy with impulsive tariffs & ICE raids that a socio-economic collapse is soon possible in the U.S.
Amazing how fast Trump & Lutnick destroyed a once great superpower, while personally profiting.
41/50 tenderheartstrong.bsky.social
Looks just fukking like him
42/50 cykoore.bsky.social
The Year Without a Harvest
43/50 sandyinthepacnw.bsky.social
Next up: children in berry fields and folks on antidepressants harvesting lettuce. RFK Jr. floated that idea with a straight face.
44/50 jerrettsnyder.bsky.social
A straight face and a voice of a 10 pack a day smoker, or maybe it's his brainworm that makes his voice sound like he drinks gasoline and bleach all day.
45/50 jc-82.bsky.social
They want to buy up farmland. JD V has financial ties to AcreTrader. Buying up distressed farms and selling to foreign investors. What will it take for these guys to wake up and figure out the intent was always to screw them out of their farms so JD can turn a profit off their misfortune.
46/50 wonderful1.bsky.social
What a pity.
Remove DeSatan and De Felon
47/50 deborahk777.bsky.social
48/50 sailingsteve.bsky.social
And the farmer/owner voted for whom???
49/50 grantmountieofanna.bsky.social
What a horrible waste. All for the rapist Trump regime.
50/50 pissedashell.bsky.social
It was already well-known that the majority of white Americans were NEVER going to take the manual labor jobs left vacant by hard-working immigrants! This Country's idiotic racism will be key in our undoing!!
A Missouri man who voted for President Donald Trump has told Newsweek he regrets his vote after his wife, who has held a green card for more than 30 years, was detained by federal agents.
Donna Hughes-Brown, a legal permanent resident originally from England, was detained by federal authorities at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago for five days upon returning to the United States from vacation in Ireland on July 29, 2025. She was then transferred to a facility in Campbell County, Kentucky.
Her husband, James Brown, told Newsweek that he "100 percent" regrets his vote for Trump.
"You look at the news, and they're not telling the truth about what's actually happening to a lot of legal immigrants," Brown told Newsweek. "What's bad is that Trump is so demeaning to people, and he's so condescending and so retaliatory that people are afraid to say anything."
Donna Hughes-Brown is pictured with her husband, James Brown.Supplied
Why It Matters
Millions of Americans voted for Trump in support of his promise to carry out widespread deportations of migrants living in the U.S. illegally, particularly those with serious criminal records. As immigration enforcement efforts ramp up across the country, concerns are mounting that the Trump administration is not, as it pledged, targeting the "worst first."Newsweekhas documented several cases of Trump supporters being affected by the immigration raids.
What To Know
Hughes-Brown's record includes a misdemeanor offense from 2015, which was resolved at the time, her husband said. Under the Trump administration, there has been an increase recently in the detention of legal immigrants with minor past infractions. These infractions can be grounds for detention pending court hearings.
"Lawful Permanent Residents presenting at a U.S. port of entry with certain criminal convictions may be found inadmissible, placed in removal proceedings, and subject to mandatory detention," a senior official of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Newsweek.
Hughes-Brown was born in England and immigrated to the U.S. in 1977 with her parents and brother when she was 11, her husband said. She has resided in the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident for over 37 years and has renewed her green card twice since then, according to her husband. Hughes-Brown has four children and five grandchildren.
After five days in Chicago, Brown said his wife was transferred to a detention facility in Kentucky. A bond hearing originally scheduled for August 13 was delayed due to a clerical error.
When the hearing occurred on August 15, a DHS attorney argued that the new law prevented the judge from granting bond, he said. Hughes-Brown's attorney secured a hearing for August 26, where bond was denied.
"Trump advertised that he was getting criminal illegal immigrants and deporting them, which I don't disagree with. But that's not what he's doing," Brown said.
"There are hundreds, maybe thousands, who are being arrested who are legal immigrants in this country. And the entire foundation of America was founded on immigration. So now we're saying that nobody who's not native born should be allowed in this country," he said.
Brown described his wife as someone deeply committed to helping others. He said she has covered grocery bills for struggling single mothers and regularly looks for ways to support people in need.
For the past three years, the couple has also helped maintain "blessings boxes" in their county—small food pantries stocked for homeless residents and families facing hardship. Brown noted that while some donations left in the boxes are not practical, his wife ensures they are filled with groceries and everyday essentials that people can actually use.
That same spirit of service, he said, guided their response to Hurricane Helene last October. Instead of celebrating her birthday, Hughes-Brown suggested they organize relief efforts. They collected donations from their community, filled a 30-foot horse trailer with water, clothing, and other supplies, and drove from Missouri to North Carolina to deliver them. Brown said they made the trip twice over three months and have continued to keep in touch with families they assisted.
"We helped with supplies for Hurricane Helene. We do volunteer work all the time. We give to single mothers. We help out military families. We have a son who is a Marine, and this is our payment," Brown said.
Brown served in the U.S. Navy from 1985 to 2005. During his career, he served in Desert Storm, helped commission an aircraft carrier in 1998, and served with the Marines at Camp Pendleton during the 1990s.
The family has now set up a GoFundMe to raise funds for legal costs.
What People Are Saying
A DHS official told Newsweek: "A green card is a privilege, not a right, and under our nation's laws, our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused."
James Brown told Newsweek of his wife: "She's more patriotic than most Americans."
What Happens Next
Hughes-Brown will remain in federal custody pending removal proceedings. She does not have any upcoming hearings.
"They're trying to deport her, and if they deport her, she's gone for 10 years," Brown said.
A county in North Carolina where nearly 70% of voters favored President Donald Trump in 2024 is facing an exodus of educators following budget cuts to the Department of Education, cuts that have left some residents feeling betrayed.During Trump’s second term, the Education Department has seen...
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'I resent it': Teacher exodus hits 'Trump stronghold' due to federal budget cuts
A view of the U.S. Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 1, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon
A county in North Carolina where nearly 70% of voters favored President Donald Trump in 2024 is facing an exodus of educators following budget cuts to the Department of Education, cuts that have left some residents feeling betrayed.
“I resent being considered government waste,” said Katie Kimrey, who’s led a 20-year career as an educator, speaking with The Washington Post. “If my kids were grown, shoot, I’d probably be gone, too.”
Kimrey had previously received a $1,500 bonus for her service to Montgomery County schools, a bonus that was to be no more after Trump’s slashing of teacher-training grants.
Another Montgomery County educator, Rhonda Perkins, who voted for Trump, defended her support for the president to The Washington Post, while at the same time, criticizing him for some of his policies.
“I think he’s awful, but he protected my values,” Perkins said.
And other educators had outright left their jobs due to the budget cuts, including 26-year-old Kylie Blankenship, who teaches middle school science.
Speaking with the Washington Post, Blankenship said working for the Montgomery County school system was already a struggle due to its high turnover, lack of resources, and 40-minute daily commute. When it was clear that Trump’s budget cuts would see her modest bonus disappear, Blankenship said she instead sought work elsewhere.
“The fact that those grants were cut, it did push me farther,” Blankenship told The Washington Post. “It gave me that kick.”
Blankenship now works in a neighboring school district making around $42,500, and is joined by at least nine other teachers from Montgomery County that left since Trump’s budget cuts were enacted.
John Painter is an organic dairy farmer in Westfield, Pa. who voted for Trump three times to deport the "troublemakers." Now, Painter has no one to milk his cows and is "very disappointed" with Trump's immigration policy: "We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do."
Once he's been hungry enough for long enough he'll be slender enough to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
I feel badly for the cows.
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"...to do the jobs americans are too spoiled to do"
Read: "...to do the jobs that don't pay a living wage"
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The Cuban community, which voted massively for the president in the November elections, is confronting a longstanding tradition of supporting conservative policies
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Florida’s Cubans are now divided on Trump: ‘He acts like Fidel’
The Cuban community, which voted massively for the president in the November elections, is confronting a longstanding tradition of supporting conservative policies
A Cuban migrant shows his support for Trump in Miami.Sean Drakes (LatinContent via Getty Images)
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of processing immigration applications, goes around asking coworkers and neighbors whether someone is eligible for U.S. citizenship or not, in the style of the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR). The American government attacks the LGBTQ+ community… just like the Cuban government did in the 1960s. Donald Trump has flirted with staying longer in the White House, in the same way in which Fidel Castro — having tasted so much power during his lifetime — decided to lead Cuba for nearly half a century. The former has already devoted efforts toward attacking opposing ideologies and freedom of expression, concepts that the latter completely nullified. One man worships what the other turned into a religion: exaltation, maximum control, a sea of fanatics, as well as the certainty that there’s no reason for the “dictator” label.
These comparisons are, among other reasons, why Carlos Icaza, a 63-year-old Cuban-American barber (almost the same age as the Revolution), finds it inconceivable that a large part of his community in the United States still defends the Republican. He knows a dictator when he sees one. “Cubans have never known what a democracy is,” he asserts. “They need a [strong]man to tell them what to do.”
He’s not the only one who thinks so. Daimarys Hernández, a manicurist whose husband is about to be deported from the Krome Detention Center in Florida, finds it incredible that her people “don’t understand how a dictator acts.”
“The same Cubans who have been here for years don’t realize that Trump acts the same way as Fidel did,” she adds.
It’s been almost nine months since Trump was sworn into office. In the 2024 presidential elections, 68% of Cuban-Americans in Florida gave the Republican their vote. However, since his return to power, those arriving from the island have not been exempt from deportations, self-deportations, the denial of political asylum, confinement in detention centers, as well as fear of what might happen to them when they go to work or school, or when they enter or leave the country.
Jorge Duany, former director of the Cuban Research Institute (CRI) and professor of anthropology in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University (FIU), believes that, to date, there’s insufficient evidence that voters have changed their preference for the current U.S. leader.
“The available polls show that the majority of voters in the last presidential election would vote the same way if the election were held today,” he points out.
Jessica Ruiz, however, no longer falls into that group. She wouldn’t recast her vote for Trump. “I voted with the hope that his administration would bring real improvements to the economy, more job opportunities and a more stable future for our families,” she sighs. “But as the months have gone by, my experience has been very different from what I expected. Instead of feeling more security and progress, I’ve seen an environment of division, decisions that don’t always favor ordinary workers, and an economy that hasn’t felt as strong as he promised. Today, with the clarity that experience gives me, I can say that if I had the opportunity to withdraw my vote, I would.”
At first glance, nothing has changed in Florida since the Biden administration concluded back in January. Egg cartons are just as expensive. Gasoline prices haven’t gone down. Rent is rising daily. These were the issues that Cuban-Americans were concerned about and voted on in the November elections, a time when — unlike other years when Cuba policy steered their vote — they were most concerned about the country’s economy. This, at least, is according to a survey by FIU. After nine months in office, however, Guillermo Grenier, the sociologist at FIU who led the survey, affirms that Trump “hasn’t delivered on his promises to reinvigorate the economy.”
“The economy is much worse now than when Biden left office,” he says. But Grenier insists that this fact doesn’t mean the community “feels let down,” nor does it guarantee “a widespread departure from Trumpism or the Republican Party.”
Still, beyond the price of gas, eggs and rent, Florida today is also a very different place than it was a few months ago. At Miami International Airport, several Cubans have already received warnings or threats about having their green cards revoked when traveling to Cuba. Others have been detained by ICE agents outside immigration court. There’s no shortage of divided families, where an uncle who voted for Trump has his nephew on the verge of deportation. In just eight days, the most feared prison of the Trump era — the South Florida Detention Facility, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” — was built in their backyard. There, several Cubans have ended up suffering the nightmare of rampant mosquitoes, a lack of food, and unhygienic conditions.
None of this, according to locals, had ever happened to them before. But in the Sunshine State, just as some are disappointed, there are also those who profess the religion of every man for himself.
A few days ago, Daimarys had a client come to get a hand and foot treatment. “She told me, ‘[We should] deport everyone who doesn’t have papers.’” Daimarys confronted her: “Why are you talking like this? Because you have papers? They’re illegal because they don’t have the opportunities we Cubans had. But those people come here to do the work that neither my children or yours — who were born here — will ever do.”
“I never imagined that, after leaving Cuba, I would experience what we’re experiencing here”
The Trump administration — in an initiative led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the former senator from Florida who is of Cuban descent — has enacted several measures in recent months aimed at suffocating Havana. This was, and has always been, another means of securing the Cuban vote in Florida. But the truth is that Cuba isn’t at the center of Oval Office conversations. Trump isn’t offering millions of dollars for Miguel Díaz-Canel’s arrest (like he is for Nicolás Maduro), nor has he managed to satisfy the long-standing desire to overthrow the dictatorship.
‘No Kings’ protest against Trump in Miami, Florida, on June 14.Jeff Greenberg (Universal Images Group / Getty Images)
Cubans — who have experienced an exodus of nearly two million people from the island in recent years — haven’t lost hope of moving to the U.S. According to a study by the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH), 78% of those interviewed still want to emigrate, amid a crisis that has affected all levels and sectors of society. Due to the benefits that the community has received in the United States for decades, the majority prefer this country as a destination. But now, the chances of arriving are almost zero, amid a national expulsion campaign.
Based on data from recent months, the outlook for the Cuban community in the U.S. is as follows: 4,248 have been deported to the island, the highest number ever. Cubans have also been sent to South Sudan, or to Eswatini, in Southern Africa. Others have been handed over to the Mexican authorities. A total of 42,084 are currently in the U.S. with final deportation orders. Family reunifications have been interrupted by the “travel ban,” which affects applications from residents, as well as business or student visas. There’s polarization from shore to shore: former militants in communist organizations have been banned from traveling to the United States, while in Miami, a hunt has been declared for Castroist repressors to be deported.
Currently, nearly 550,000 Cubans on U.S. soil are unable to become legal residents. They’re affected by various statuses, while some have deportation orders in hand, or supervised release permits. They’ve also been harmed by the elimination of humanitarian parole or the CBP One app, which has left them struggling with the expiration of work permits or driver’s licenses.
Florida immigration attorney Liudmila Marcelo asserts that, perhaps like never before, the “situation for Cubans is almost the same as for other immigrants” in the country. The exception is that some may still be able to navigate the path toward the Cuban Adjustment Act, such as previous beneficiaries of humanitarian parole or CBP One. “Now, this doesn’t mean that these two groups of Cubans are completely safe,” she clarifies. “There are reports of arrests of Cubans who entered under this category. I’ve been contacted by relatives of some people who’ve been detained simply for a traffic [violation].”
Marcelo also asserts that the number of asylum applications granted in the community “remains lower than the number of asylum applications denied.” Several longtime opponents or protesters — many of whom were present at the massive protests held in Cuba on July 11, 2021 — have had to flee the long prison sentences imposed by Díaz-Canel’s government. Once in the United States, however, some judges don’t feel that there are sufficient grounds to grant them protection. “It’s often frustrating that well-founded cases aren’t evaluated in the courts the way they deserve to be,” the lawyer says.
Yaquelín Boni, a 59-year-old Cuban member of the opposition group Ladies in White, left the island after one of her sons was imprisoned for political reasons. She now has another son in the hands of ICE. What she’s seen under this second Trump administration has made her reject the possibility of naturalization. “I’m no longer interested in being a citizen,” she laments from West Palm Beach, where she lives. “I’m not going to swear allegiance to this... I never imagined that, after leaving Cuba, I would experience what we’re experiencing here.”
In such an unstable political climate, one of the most heated debates in recent days has focused on the questions surrounding the Cuban Adjustment Act. Passed by Congress in 1966, it has since guaranteed Cubans’ path to regularization. Within a divided community, there are those who question whether the legislation makes sense today — when other dictatorships have emerged on the continent — or those who downplay the refugee status of Cuban emigrants. And there are also those who assert that, should they benefit from this type of law, Cubans should stop visiting the island from which they fled. Others insist that nothing will stop them from returning to the arms of their families. Generally, though, there’s a common sentiment among Cubans: the fear of losing a policy that has protected them for decades.
However, attorney Marcelo asserts that this concern is simply part of the overall fear amid the anti-immigrant crusade in the country. “It’s a way to sow panic and gather supporters for local political campaigns,” she maintains. The lawyer asserts that, although there are other factors that can jeopardize obtaining residency — such as the “discretionary element” of the USCIS officer, who evaluates the individual’s behavior for a period of one year — there isn’t “an imminent risk” that the Adjustment Act will be eliminated.
“This law is ironclad,” Marcelo emphasizes. “Only the announcement of free and democratic elections in Cuba and a consensus in Congress can repeal it.”
He was already acting like Fidel when you voted for him. Nothing Trump is doing is new for him. It might be escalated compared to before but it isn't new.
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│ No, you dont understand. The problem is that now he is doing it to them. They were fine when he was doing it to that Central/South American riff raff.
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│ │ Exactly. He’s not only hurting the right people, instead he’s hurting them too.
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│ │ A large portion of Cuban voters have the issue as being that they think themselves white. Or more accurately they think they are the good immigrants while other countries immigrants need to be kicked out.
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│ │ There’s a severe amount of racism and hatred between the various Latin communities. They honestly don’t understand that the majority of Republicans don’t care about their racial background and view them all the same way.
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│ │ │ The Republican Party in Florida has been equating democrats with communism with absolutely no pushback whatsoever.
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│ │ │ │ To people who lived under communism, there are only two political factions, commies and freedom fighters. The GOP can't be the commies because the say freedom in every sentence. So that just leaves democrats. After all they passed those communist retirement entitlements that everyone hates so they probably think it fits.
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│ │ │ │ │ Ironically, Republicans are much closer to Soviet totalitarianism than Democrats today.
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From Trump's own TruthSocial, expressing concern over the raid of the Hyundai plant and the subsequent arrest of South Koreans. Actions, meet consequences
"Come teach us how to do this unique thing so we can steal it and do it better, then kick you out" is not a good way to pitch investments.
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│ Commented on Mon Sep 15 15:10:48 2025 UTC
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│ He's dumb as shyt to think this would be an attractive deal lol
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"Come teach us how to do this unique thing so we can steal it and do it better, then kick you out" is not a good way to pitch investments.
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│ Better yet, S. Korea is now considering to pull out 350B investment at the exchange of the tariff deal with US
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│ No need to cling to unbalanced Korea-U.S. tariff deal
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│ This ICE raid costs USA $350B. Good job and so much winning.
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│ (Edit) note that this op ed is coming from right wing newspaper, (which is why they use adject like blunt to negatively view current Korean liberal administration) and even then he supports to pay tariff than making 350B investment to US products
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│ │ What most MAGATS don't understand is that Trump's mafia-like double-crossing of the US trade partners is taking away the cushioning from the massively economic spiral he created with The Big Beautiful Bill. South Korea's GDP as of 2025 is 1.79 trillion, and blackmailing them to pitch 1/3 of their total GDP to invest in a hair-brained scheme to jumpstart a coming recession of his own making is bonkers. US is becoming isolated and avoided. Wait until the dollar is no longer the world currency, like the British sterling, to really make the nation reconsider war and tax cuts to billionaires is probably a losing stratagem with nothing to show for it.
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│ │ │ Except all of trump’s supporters who still support him at this point are either too dumb to ever figure out all the damage trump is causing, or they’re fellow corrupt billionaires who stand to gain from further subjugation of America’s working class.
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Commented on Mon Sep 15 15:09:58 2025 UTC
Lol, getting upset at unleashing his own racist hordes out into the wild.
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│ It's kind of illuminating though. He clearly has no real control of Miller and Homan since there has been a ton of this critical commentary, which maybe pushes back the ICE folks for a day or two. Then Temu Geobbels goes out on Fox or some shyt and says they're right back to the same racist nonsense they were doing before. The immigration policy and enforcement that is happening in this admin is going to be remembered as the worst in US history, and we have a terrible history with immigration. Economics has a perfect record here, so this shyt is going to get stopped at some point. I wonder if Miller and Homan end up getting scapegoated as the economic impacts become worse.
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│ │ The sad irony here is that we may be relying on a decaying Trump to fukk over Miller, JD, Homan, and everyone else who's using him as the decrepit grampa in a fit of dying rage right before he passes. I'm 100% certain that Miller and company just goes to people these days and tell them to do shyt because it's what Trump himself ordered.
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│ │ The absolute shyt-show that would result from Trump exploding on live TV that Miller, JD, or whoever else has been betraying him and betraying MAGA (in effect blaming them for all the crappy policies that have been implemented), the Epstein files finally getting released that implicate Trump, and the invoking of the 25th Amendment might literally eclipse the Ides of March.
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The Cuban community, which voted massively for the president in the November elections, is confronting a longstanding tradition of supporting conservative policies
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